The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-24

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the trouble Is between the car and the
forehead, in the shape of neuralgia
twinge. Nobody eau see it or sympathiz,
with you; but just at the time when you
want your intellect clearest, and your dis
position brightest, you feel a sharp, keen,
disconcerting thrust. TIE Lord sent the
| hornet
Perhaps these small inset annoyances
will come in the shape of domestic irri Ia
ton. The parlor and kitchen do not al
ways harmonic. To get good service and
keep il is one Of the great questions of the
/ country. Sometimes IL may be the AFRO
/ gancy aud inconsideratcness Of the EN-
| ployers; but whatever be the
| fact we all admit there are these
insect annoyances winging their way out
| from the culinary department IL the
| grace of God be not in the heart of the
housekc per. she can not maintain her
| equilibrium. The men COM homo at night
and hear the story of these annoyances,
and say:
80, these HON" troubles are very little
things"
They are small, small as waspS, but the '
sting Martha's nerves were all unstruny
when she rushed in asking Christ to re
prove Mary, and there are teas of thou
Il
death by these pestiferouS domestic an
noyances. The Lord sent the h)rLet
These small insect disturbances may
come in the shape OF business Irritations.
| There are men hare who went through
! 1857 and September -, 1869. without losing
their balance, who are every day un-
| horsed by little annoyances "a clerk $
| ill-manners, or a bio, of ink on n bill of
! lading, or the extravaganza OF a partner
who overdraws rs account, or the unler-
| selling by u business rival. or the whisper
ing of business condolences in the sire IT,
making of some little bad debt which was
against your Judgment, just to please
! somebody else.
| 1t is not the pluCs that kilt the mer-
chants. Pdnics come only once in ten
or twenty years. 1t r. the constant
din of these everyday annoyances
which is sending so many of our
best merchants into nervous dyspepsia
and paralysis and the grave. When our
National commerce fell Hat on its face,
these men stood up and felt almost de-
| fiant; but their life is giving way now
under the swarm of these pes ferrous an
novances. The Lord sent the hornet.
| / have noticed in the history OF some of
my congregation that their annoyancn -
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dred where they uscl TO have ten. The
naturalist tells us that wasp sometimes
has family Of 20 600 and it does seem az
if every aanoyauc' of your life bred l,0J0.-
O00. BY the help of God to-day want to
show you the other side.
! The hornet is of no use! Ga, yes. The
naturalists tell us they are very impor tant
in the worlds economy. They kill spiders
| and they clear the atmosphere. And |
! really believe God sends the annOyanCcs
of our life upoa us to kill the spiders of
! the soul and to clear the atm Ospherc of
our skies.
| These annoyances are sent on us, think,
to wake us up from our lethargy. There
| is nothing that makes a man so Lively a. Il
nest of "yellow Jackets" and think that
these annoyances are intende / to persuada
us of the fact that this i not a world for
us TO stop in If we hId a bsl of any
! thing that was attractive and sof: and
easy, what would we want of Heaven!
| You think shat the hollow tree sends the
! hornet, or you think the devil sends the
hornet | want TO correct your opinion.
The Lord sent the hornet.
| Then | also think these annoyance
! come upon us to culture our patience. In
the gymnasium you find upright parallel
| barS-bdrs with holes over each other for
pegs TO be put in. Then the gymnlst
| takes a peg in each hand and h. begins to
! climb one inch at a time, or two inches,
| and, getting his strength cultured, reaches
after awhile the ceiling. And it seems to
me that these annoyances IN life are
moral gymnasium, each worry a peg by
/ which we are to Climb higher and higher
! in Christian attainment.
a. a II a
not be cultured in far weather. 1t is q
| child of the storm. If you had every thing
desirable and there was nothing more to
! get, what would you want with patience!
| The only time to cultivate il is when you
are slandercd and cheated and sick and
! half dead
oh" you say, "if only had the cir
| cumstances OF some wen-to- DOMAIN /
would be patient too"
Hou might as we'll say
"lf it were not for this water | would
SWIM"
! Or,
IL could shoot this gun if it were not for
the caps"
When you stand chin-deep in annoy
ances is the time for You to swim out to-
ward the great hcadlands of Ca istian at
| tainment, and when yoIr life is 10 llcd to
the muzzle with repulsive annoyance
that is the time u draw the trigger.
Nothing but the furnace will ever
burn out of US the clinkar and
The Stag l have formed this the Dry in re-
gard to small annoyanccs and vexalions
1t takes just 50 much trouble to fit us for
usefulness and for heaven. The only
question il whether we shall take it in
bulk, or pulveriZed and graduated.
- hot t.,ly - l,D
bulk. His back is broken, or his eyesign.
put out or some other calamity Details
him while the vast ma jority of people take
the thing plecemaal. VIII oh way YOU d
YOU rather have it! OF course in pecc-
meal. Better have five aching teeth than
one booken jaw. Better ten fiy-blisters
than an amputatlon. Better twenty
squalls than one cyclone. There may be
difference of OPP Mon as to allopathy and
homeopathy; but in this matter of trouble
| like homeopathic doses small pellets Of
annoyance rather than some ck-dOwn
dose of calamity. Instead of the thunder
bolt, give us the hornet.
If you have bank YOU would great
deal rather that fifty men should come in
with chez Ks less than SD than to have
! two depositors to come in the same day.
each wanting his $4,000 In this lat: eI
case you cough and look down at the floor
and up at the ceiling before you look into
the safe. Now, my friends, would you not
rather have these small drafts of annoy
ance on your bank of fai h than some all
staggering demand upon your endurance.
want to make you so strong that yoI
will not surrender to small annoyanCes.
In the village of Ii lmelin, tradition says
there was an invasion OF rats, and these